2012 Prizm Baseball Stars in Sunday Edition of Panini Unwrapped (Scavenger Hunt)
With seemingly every new release, Panini America's Prizm technology continues etching its place deeper and deeper into the sweet spot of America's collecting conscious. The phenomenon that began with 2012-13 Prizm Basketball and continued with 2012 Prizm Football added a new chapter last week with the release of 2012 Prizm Baseball. Late last week, Panini America's Tracy Hackler and Tim…
At Long Last: Revisiting the Panini America Routing Table and its Golden Age Glimpses
Here's one sure sign that it's been way too long since we last visited the fabled Panini America Routing Table: It's not even a table anymore. It's been upgraded to a full-blown Routing Section, wedged neatly into a lightly trafficked hallway between the Product Development and Prepress departments. In any event, I ventured back there earlier this week to see what…
International Treasures: Cards Infinity Hits Pull of a Lifetime for Collector in Taiwan
I received a most spectacular email from Taiwan-based collector Andre Pretorius early Thursday morning informing me of a truly monster pull made on his behalf by Chris Justice of Cards Infinity. The shocking pull from 2012 National Treasures Baseball was caught on video and sent shock waves surging throughout the card-collecting globe. What follows is the meat of Pretorius' email, and the…
Hidden Treasures: Find Three Packs of 2012 National Treasures & You Could Win One!
Yes, 2012 National Treasures Baseball is the single hottest baseball card set to hit the market in years. Yes, it's the priciest, most history-packed baseball release in Panini America history. Yes, it sold out the day it released last Wednesday and has proceeded to disappear rapidly from the secondary market since. Yes, it's producing some of the most majestic memorabilia…
Father-Son Team Hits ‘Holy Grail’ from One Pack of 2012 National Treasures Baseball
One pack. Eight cards. Sometimes that's all it takes. So when North Carolina collector Peter DeLorme and his 12-year-old son, Spencer, got their pack of 2012 National Treasures Baseball in the mail from Atlanta Sports Cards on Monday, they knew they had eight opportunities to make collecting history. And on the eighth and final card in that pack, they did. With…
Panini Peek: 2013 Golden Age Baseball
By many accounts, Panini America's 2012 Golden Age Baseball was one of the most eclectic and entertaining new products of last season, helped immensely by, among other things, a stacked checklist of base cards, autographs and memorabilia that was as historic as it was fun, a hardcore throwback feel, a collectible cache of minis and card-back variations . . .…
Rare Air: First Amelia Earhart Memorabilia Trading Card Drawing Big Bucks, Curiosity
Simply stated, last week's celebrated release of 2012 National Treasures Baseball included some of the most historically significant trading cards ever produced, including bat knobs, buttons, booklets and cut signatures honoring the greatest baseball players to all time. But National Treasures has always been about much more than just legends and current superstars from the world of sports. It's also…
Panini America Offers a Deeper Look Inside the Upcoming 2012 Prizm Baseball
Some 24 hours later, it's still hard to decipher which created bigger reverberations yesterday: Panini America's 2012 National Treasures Baseball going live or Panini America announcing that it would be releasing 2012 Prizm Baseball in a few short months. Regardless of which development you appreciated most, there's no denying that both were headline grabbers in the trading card industry. But…
Pssst . . . Panini America Unveils First Look at 2012 Prizm Baseball (Preview Gallery)
Amid the the intense furor surrounding today's release of 2012 National Treasures Baseball, Panini America officials this morning are about to drop the second bombshell of the day on the baseball collecting community: 2012 Prizm Baseball is coming -- and we have the hot-off-the-presses uncut sheets to prove it. Indeed, hot on the heels of instant-classic sell-outs in basketball and…
Case in Point: Panini America Breaks a Case of 2012 National Treasures Baseball
Call it a case of national intrigue. On this, the eve of Panini America's ballyhooed 2012 National Treasures Baseball product releasing tomorrow, the suspense has reached its crescendo and the anticipation is palpable. With thoughts of bat knobs and booklets and buttons bouncing around baseball collecting's collective conscious, we thought now would be the perfect time to take you card-by-card…